How Can I Recycle This?

It happens nearly every day to environmentally conscious people: you’ve got some kind of object that has fulfilled its conventional use but that you just can’t bear to throw away. You think, ‘Is there some way I can recycle this?’ It can be hard to come up with creative, practical recycling/upcycling ideas on your own. That’s where a website called ‘How Can I Recycle This?’ comes in.

How Can I Recycle This was born when a pair of eco-minded Brits were done eating a bowl of pistachios and thought, is there something we can do with these aside from throwing them on the compost heap? Louisa Parry and John Leach realized that a lot of other people were probably wondering the same thing about thousands of everyday items.

So, what to do with an old bicycle helmet? Photographic slides? Spare buttons? Bowling balls? Even amazingly random items like orthopedic corsets are covered, and the commenters really came through on that one, suggesting that it be donated to a group like the SCA who could use it as ‘armor parts’ in one of their medieval re-enactments. Another helpful suggestion was to turn used up metal tubes of tomato paste into garden markers.

Once you put this stuff out there where recycling enthusiasts can read it, the possibilities are truly endless. You can submit your own ‘How Can I Recycle This?’ question to items@recyclethis.co.uk.

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